Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES JADVOCATE. SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1890.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 484, 28 June 1890, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES JADVOCATE.

SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1890.

' This Above all—to thine own eelf be true, And it must follow aa the'night the d»y Thou paneb not then bo tp any man.' ShV^sphabk.

Midwinter holidays now ofi.»" The monthly meeting of the Waitoq Road Boarc| wil} be held at Morrinsville. to-day.’ ” ;7 ‘ Mr R. Harrig is authorised to, receive all accounts due to Mr J. Wood* Sep advt. ' It costs L 661,000 less now than it did seven years ago to supply New Zealand polonists with alcoholic liquors.

A farm hand ,is advertised for. Application to Mr J. A. Goclyanc.

Piako County Council beet, for year ending 31st Mil,roll jlugjt, mow open for inspection on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, a,t ,the iCo.ynpil’s office, Cambridge. ■The .quarterly meeting of the Upper Tli.a,i,n.es Circuit of the Wesleyan Church will .be held ip ,th,e (Glyarcd), Te Aroha, on next Tuesday, d'ily2nd ; commencing at half past two o’clock. , f ' , ' ' Th,e Wesleyan and Presbyteriap services to be held in this district to morrow, will be fopnd duly advertised ip opr columns us usual. , L '■< ,

The telephone offices have been opened at Okorpire and Oxford. The hongs of attendance are from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m., and the ofijicec . !l F e closed on Sundays and holidays. Mr James McVeagh, solicitor, left Cambridge yesterday, for Melbourne. A large number of friends assembled at the Railway Station to wish him bon voyage. The meeting of the Committee re .the establishment of a 1 .creamery,’' which should have been held.on Friday evening last, has been adjourned to Saturday next, sth inst., owing to no reply having been yet received to correspondence sent.A grand entertainment, in aid .pf the funds of the Te Aroha District Library, was he.ld in the. Pijhlie Hall hist evening There 'wits a large'attendance, lin'd the, whole performance passed otf without a hitch. A full report will'Appear iu our next issue.

In accordance with a resolution passed Ut the last New Zealand Wesleyan Conference, special services will he held in all the Churches of thatconnection to-morrow, in commemoration of the planting of the Methodist Church in this Colony. It is also intended (:o raise £15,000 as a special Jubilee thanksgiving fund. The funeral of James Supth ( W l ,OS{ 5 death referred to in our last issue) took place on Wednesday. The jntprmenttook place in Te Aiolia cemetery, Rev J. La\y presiding. A brother of deceased’s, \yj]p resides in Auckland, arrived at Waiorqngomai on Tuesday evening, ant} was present at the funeral.

Messrs J. McNicol gnd Co, will hold a sale of live stock at Ohaupo on Tuesday next; and on that occasion will also sell household furniture and effects. On Wednesday, July 2nd, the same firm will sell qn account of Mr R. N. Buttle, at Innesfjjllen, Ohaupo, a quantity of first class household furniture, etc. On Friday the fir;q will hold a sale of live and dead stock at Wqitoa.

In the Cpown mine (Karangahake).Mr McGruer luqs finisjied a connection between the new Waitawheta reef and the mill. Tl|,e drying floqr is completed, and the new gear, for the Lamberton mills arrived per s.s. Ruby on Wednesday. The new reef is driven on about 70ft., and looks well all the way. The following regulation has been gazetted to come'intq force from Decern her Ist, 1890 :—ln the fqrm °f retqrn specifying the quarterly attpndarice of each gehoqj the numbers pf children of different ffges shall he so stated as to show the nutpher attending between five and six years old, the number batween six and seven, and so on year by year.to the uge of fifteen.”

The old Thames trader, tlie p.s, Ent >rpri- ©, which has been laid up for some time, was taken alongside tlie Railway wharf in A uckjand on Monday and had her old boiler, which was worn, hauled out to he replaced by a new one just completed by Mr G. Frazer. During her temporary retirement she has received a (borough overhauling, apd will lie in first rate condition when she resumes her running to the Thames in conjunction with the 8 s. .Roto rnahana next week. V ' -

On. Tuesday last, 24th inst,, a marriatre ceremony was performed at Owlmroa. The parties united were Mr William John Me Watters, of Paeroa, and Miss Maggie McKenna, of Owharon. The Rev T. A. Norrie officiated. Several friends of the parties came from a distance, notwithstanding the had state of the roads, in order to be present. After partaking of a bountiful repast, in the house of the bride’s father, the evening was spent in amusement. On ihe following morning the married pair took their passage by the mail coach to Paeroa, in order to catch the s.s. Ruby for Auckland, where they spend their honeymoon. In thejrising district of Wa'hi, a Government School, under the Auckland Board of Education, has been opened. l Miss Gibb, late of the Thames, is in 'charge. The number on the toil is 15. And there, is always the prospect of the attendance increasing, for the establishment of a school in any district is an inducement for the men engaged in the mines to bring their families into the locality. Great praise is due to those parties; in the district who have been thus successful in getting the Board of Education tp open the school, : . ” • j T|ip annual report of the New Zealand Police Force was laid on the table of the House on Tuesday. During the year, the strength of the police has been increased fpom 484 to 494, and four new stations have been openefi. The report states that the police force retains its popularity, and large qnjnbers of Recruits o,f a good class can be obtained. A carefpl investigation of the records allows thftt qbput ninetenths of the men convicted of firunken T ness are over 40 years Of qge, and noi more than! in lfihave been bor.fl |p colony. This testimony is surely most satisfactory and should prove very encouraging to all labouring in connection with Bands of Hope and other kindred societies for the promotiqn of total abstinence amongst the yonpg,

The Financial Statement was delivered on Wednesday evening. Mr Mitchelson asked.,the indulgence of the House on behalf, of the. Premier. Be regretted to state that Sir H. Atkinspn’s medical adviser had informed hiny mat if would be exceedingly dangerous ip the present state of his health to personally deliver the -Financial Statement, and lye therefore asked whether permission would be given for one of the Premier’s.colleagqes to read the. statement. —Mr Bullance, on behalf of (hp Opposition, said he was only fop, glad* to agree to any arrangements that 2 were considered best under the present pircum- . stanpes.— Mitchelson subsequently read the Statement, which was a v£ry lengthy and able document, and was well received by the House. A full report of the statement will appear in our next issue.

Ven. Archdeacon Willis will conduct Church of England services at Wainrongomai, Shaftesbury, and. r £e .tomorrow.

On Monday afternoon an occurrence of a pleasing nature took place at the T,e Aroha District School, It having become known that Mr Simmonds was about jto leave on .the following day to take .charge of a school in the North ; and that Miss Hogjld was to be removed to a town schaol, the children decided to give each o memento of the time spent in this district. Miss Hop Id was presented with a pretty work basket, and Mr Shnmonds with two handsomely bound vplpmes. The presentations were made by Misses Mary Clarke pnd Clara Gojdsworthy on behalf of their echoolfellpiys. The recipients briefl}’ and suitably responded. At the meeting of the Crown Lands Boards, Auckland, on Thursday last, a letter was received from Mr Reuben Parr, chairman of the meeting of farmers and settlers of the Aroha and Wuihou districts, stating that it was resolved at tlie meeting to secure a piece of land in a central position suitable for a creamery, to be erected at once. He had decided on a suitable site of one acre in Te Aroha, in a position more suitable than that of the piece ,of land, previously applied for at Wuihon, It was decided to offer the site for sale by auction.—At the same meeting there were two applications :for the purchase of-three totara trees near’to the Gordon-Special Settlement. It was resolved to give the trees to Mr Von Stunner for j 5 .... , ;

The attendance at the Shaftesbury school having fallen very low, tlie Board of Education have notified tlie Committee of thei r intention of closing the same, on the ground that the average attendance has fallen below tlie legal minimum of ten. Before doing so, hewevef, they notified the Committee, and asked them whether they had anything tosaj\ On Monday last a special meeting of the Committee was called. The Chairman, Mr E. Y. Cox, having read the letter from the board, a resolution was paßße.d to tlm effect that q letter he written in reply, stating that there were sufficient children of school age, hut that owing to tffe wjntef weather and other capses they had b ee P. jiept away, qnd asking t| )e Board' to keep on the sphoo] through the wiqter qs there was a possibility of fresh children coming to the place, but in the event of the Board declining to accede to this request the further suggestion was m il( ' e that the Shaftesbury school be made a half time school >vita tlie Gordon Settlement.

The Bay of. Plenty Times thus refers to what took place at tlie last meeting of Piako County Council, re the completion of road to conn-ct with proposed freezing works at Taurnnga : “ The report of tlie engineer re opening of Cambridge-Tau-ranga Road Was read, showing that the cost would be L 609 to the Piako County Council to make a good fat-sheep driving rqad in their county. Letters were read qn the subject from the Chairman of the Tauranga County Council, and from Mr F D. Rich, wild offered a driving road through the clearings of the Thames Valley Land Company if tlie Council would clear some 18U chains more than his Company have at present done. The Engineers report was received and the matter left in abeyance, pending further developments in the matter of the eiec-’ tion of freezing works at Tauranga According to the above L6OO will improve the part of tl|e Cumbridge-Tauranga Rqad in the Piakp conqty, so a® admit fiff sheep coming over it According to tlie statement made at la*t Tauranga County Council meeting, LIOOO is estimated as the total cost to he borne by both counties together ; which would he thus L4OO for Tauranga’s share. But why should it fall to the counties to do tltia work ? Government never had a plainer duty before them than the'completion of the road, which should have been attended to long ago, connecting the Waikato find other districts with Tauranga harbour. It is evidently now essential for the proper institution and development of the frozen meat industry. It seems to us that a petition from the districts, interested, to Parliament praying a sum to be put on the estimates for this work, could not fail of success."